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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1936-01-16, Page 2PAGE 2 THE ''CLINTON' 'NEWS -RECORD' THUS., JAN. 16, 1936 The Clinton . News -Record With which is•Incorporated THE NEW ERA TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION 81..5 per year in advance, to Cana- dian addresses, $2.00 to the U.S. or other foreign countries. No paper discontinued until all arrears ":are -paid unless at the option of the publish- er. The date to which every , sub- scription is paid is denoted on the label. ADVERTISING RATES Tran- sient advertising 12c 'per, count line for first` insertion. 8c for each sub- sequent insertion. Heading counts 2 lines. Small advertisements not to exceed one inch, such as -"Wanted," "Lost," "Strayed," etc., inserted once for 35e, each subsequent insertion 15c. Rates for display advertising made known on application.,1 Communications intended for pub- lication must, as a guarantee of good faith, be accompanied. by the name of the writer. G. E. HALL, M. It 'CLARK, Proprietor. Editor. H. T. RANCE Notary Public, Conveyancer Financial,' Real Estate and. Fire In- surance Agent. Representing 14 Fire Insurance ,Companies. • Division Court Office. "Clinton ,' Frank.Fingland, B.A., LLB. Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public Successor to W. Brydone; K.C. Sloan Block — Clinton, Ont. DR.F. A. 'AXON Dentist ' 'Graduate of C.C.D.S., Chicago and R.C.D.S., Toronto. Crown and plate' work a specialty. Phone 185, Clinton, Ont. 19-4-84. PROLOGUE TO ',LOVE By Martha O'stensa l' In Prologue to Love, the author of Wild Geese, for which she won 85,000' prize, and The Dark .Dawn has departed,aboldly from her earlier method,` and has written a genuine romance, more powerful and appeal- ing than her previous realistic nosh els. Autumn Dean's destiny was sealed in a moment of moon -lit , magie• Looking into Bruce Landor's level eyes, -she knew that she loved him, But love between these two was, it seemed, a forbidden thing --a heft. tage from her mother, Millicent O- dell . , forever loved, forever lost. The setting of this splendid story. is the Kamloops Valley of British Columbia midway between the vast' arches of the Riockies and the colorful Casca'es. To this region of great sheep rlanches,; Autumn Dean returns from her schooling "a- mong the Continental smart set,' to. find' herself inescapably •faced with a fateful secret and a eonquering love. As in the ,author's earliest • nos- 'els; . "the present story is steeped' 1n the stark, wild beauty of the North- west. It is intensely vital with hu= man "drama. Autumn Dean is puzzled by the re- ception given her by her old freind Elector Cardigan, and is made 'un- easy later by the reception given her by her strange father. But she has come home, is determined • to stay and to make the best of it, D. H. McINNES CHIROPRACTOR, Electro Therapist, Massage Office: Huron Street, (Few Doors west of Royal Bank) Hours—Wed. and Sat. and by appointment. FOOT CORRECTION by manipulation Sun -Ray Treatment Phone 207 • A. E. COOK PIANO AND VOICE Studio At MR. E. C. NICKLE'S Ring Street, Clinton. Phone 28ty. Dec. 25-35. GEORGE ELLIOTT Licensed .Auctioneer for the County of Huron Correspondence promptly answered immediate arrangements can be made for Sales Date at The News -Record, Clinton, or by calling phone 203. Charges Moderate and Satisfaction Guaranteed. THE Mcll`1T,LOP MUTUAL Fire Insurance Company Head Office, Seaforth; Ont. Officers - President. Alex. Broadfoot, Sea - forth; Vice -President, James Con- nolly, Goderich; secretary -treasurer, M. A. Reid, Seaforth., Directors: Alex. Broadfoot, Seaforth, 11. R. .No. "t ; James Sholdice, Walton; Who. Knox,Londesboro; Geo, Leonhardt, Bornholm, R. R. No. 1; John Pepper, Brucefield; Janes Connolly, Godes rich; Alexander McEwing, Blyth, R. R. No. 1; Thomas Moylan, Seaforth, R. R. No, 5; Wlm. R. Archibald, Sea - forth, R. R. No. 4. Agents: W. J. Yeo, R. R. "No, 3, ,Clinton; John Murray, "Seaforth; James Watt, Blyth; Finley 117cKer- cher, Seaforth. Any money to be paid may be paid to the Royal Bank, Clinton; Bank of Commerce, Seaforth; or at Calvin. Cutt's Grocery, Goderich, Parties' -desiring to effect insur- ance or transact other business will be promptly attended to on applica- ion to any of the above officers ad- dressed to their respective post offi- ces. Losses inspected by the director' who lives nearest the scene. CANADIAN NATIONAL. AILWAYS TIME' TABLE Trains will arrive at and depart from Clinton as follows: Buffalo and C'mod'erich Div. Going East, depart 7.08 a.m. Going East, depart. 3.00 p.m" Going West, depart 11,50 a.m. Going West, depart 10.08 p.m. London, Huron & Bruce Going North, ar. 11.34. lye. 11.54 am. Going • South 3,08 p.m. The reputation of Canadian cows in the 28 licensedi dairies of Shang- hai, China, where the supervision is very strict, has been enhanced by the work of the Dominion Department of Agriculture's work in eradicating bovine 'tuberculosis. The belief is general among the Chinese that fresh milk is .a more wholesome drink in winter than in summer, with the re- sult that consumption of milk falls a- way when the hot weather arrives. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY He came anti stood beside her, erect and confident in his manner. His eyes were .narrowed as he looked down at her. "You will, find ase very abrupt at times, Autumn," he said. "I have learned it, simplifies matters very of- ten to speak one's mind. I have been thinking about—us." "Us, Florian?" Autumn . smiled. "I'd almost swear you were going to propose to me" "But I ant," he said, "I believe you and I were made for each oth- er." She Iaughed sightly. "Why, Flor- ian—what a quaint idea! I don't be- lieve those Ards have ever been us- ed before!" "They may have been," he admit- ted, "but never more appropriately. We both come from adventurous stock. There is something untamed in both of us. We are both—gam- blers. But I've never been more serious in my life. I want to starry you., Autumn could not doubt his ser- iousness. The knowledge made her thoughtful. "Florian," she said, "you really are a dear." A perverse hu- mor seized her. "Suppose I tell you that I'll think it over?" "Excellent!" he replied, placing an arm abruptly about her shoulders. "Youare permitting me to hope, then?" She laughed up at him. "Not at all Florian, she said. "I ars—in fact refusing you." His serious mood vanished sudden- ly. He' ,was eat -tally amused at the situation, He chortled and step- ped back from her, It was the first time he had ever really prol5osed to any girl hi earnest—and she thought she was turning , him down! Jarvis. Dean's girl at that, with a back- ground as iniquitous as sin! It was that background that lent piquancy to his quest, after all, and besides, by the Lord .Harry, he was crazy a- bout the girl! Presently his amusement subsided and his' lips drew to a thin, petulant line.; "I'll give you time to think about it, Autumn," he said, ,striving to carry it off with a gay, inconsequen- tial air. "When we are alone again, I'll tellyou'. how I love you." "And how do you love me, Floss Ian?" Her. tone was gently. mocking. MINIM Mi. managed the affair quite nicely, I should say. Can I help you to ' a cocktail, sir?" "No,"replied, Jarvis r p t "I'm a' s erious man and have 'too' 'much. respect for niy stomach, thank God, to punish it with ,such infernal concoctions: Florian laughed and filled his own glass. "Father sends you his respects sir," he said,, "and would like' `to sec you, when you can take a day off." "And I'd like to see him, too," Jar- vis ''replied, seating himself. "I, have asked Autumn down for the polo game next week -end," Flor ian went on. "Perhaps yon could find the time, sir=" "Not yet, not yet," Jarvis replied. "It's 'a busy time of the year `for me. Besides you youngsters will have more fun. without too many old cod- gers hanging about." • His big white head was thrust for- ward in its characteristic way as though he were eager to show an'in- terest in the plans and projects of these youngsters while his mind and his obscure ..spirit remained with- drawn, remote. Autumn had seen the deaf and the blind make that same -piteous effort at sociability. "Now, Daddy!" she rebuked him. "You're just fishing. You want us to assure you that you are the best - looking' ani! most fascinating gentle, man in the Upper -Country, and that no party would be complete without you." I. The tapers of the Laird's infre- quent smile lighted for a brief mom- ent of pleasure in his eyes. out the Basque, bell: She had .entrust ed it to the keeping or Clancy Shane! who had, secured it to she wether of Isi's flocks. Arid now,, from the oppo- site hillside,!' Caine the' pine: sound of the bell, singularly: innocent across the holloyv distance:, The sound'turned her thoughts a- gain to 'Brake Landor, who had scareely`been out of her inh d during the past week. She thought oi'theiir, meeting at Hector Cardigans when she had •gone to fetch hoose the bell, and of her telling hini about Hector's conceit concerning It. There- was something in the sound of the bell' now that brought the lovely: wraith - of her 'nether. before her out'•of ,the nebulous glamor of the past. This had been Millicent Odell's world,, the World- of the pioneers and the subtle architects of empire, and now in turn it was her world, .Suddenly she was: glad, glad with all her heart that;she was back home where life liad meaning, where life was a pro- found :harmony. "I could go—perhaps," he admit- ted. "I'll 'see how things are in •a week's time. I'd enjoy a day with Elliot Parr!" Old Hannah stepped into the door= way and announced dinner. s CHAPTER VIII An hour before sunset the sky had been overcast, with a purple caravan of thunderheads. in the west; the thrumming of insects and the humid flower smell of the air presaged rate On a grassy hilltop ten miles east- ward from the Castle; Autumn dis- mounted from her horse and let the •aminal graze while she stood and ' looked into the valley below. On the slopes that streamed into the valley like smooth reddish ccs cedes in the low sun, more than set en thousand head of sheep moved i bands, twelve hundred to a band. A dawn the herders had started then 'from home on the trek up into the ,I mountains to the very margin of the eternal snows, in the relentless, lone- ly quest for grass. They were being gradually maneuvered now to the bed] ground which would mark the end of the first day's journey. With tomorrow's sunrise the vast ,her would be moving again, moving, ntov ing, with slow, colossal patience ant trust, ever upward toward the world's risn. As Autumn gazed down ' upon that gray -white, hiving tide into her senses came a strange nameless nostalgia, a yearning of racial memory, an' inscrutable award- ness of remote ages when primitive man had driven hisflocks upward in- to sweet kills in this same inexorable quest. Her throat filled' with an in- articulate emotion as her eyes were held fascinated by that slow, silvery drift of life—the gentle, indomitable surge of the herd in a. .dreamlike unity. Now, from the hillside directly op- posite her across the little valley, a crow's flight half -mile away, carne the limpidly sweet note of a bell. I seemed to Autumn that the sown was almost visible, floating like some silver bubble' within that rosy dorm of silence, lingering and vanishing into the infinity whence it has come, It was the note of the Basque bels A fancy had seized, her that morn ing' while she had watched her fath er's men preparing for their denim tune. Only a week before, there has come to the ranch a youth of nineteen or twenty whose appearance. had bee so bizarre that the Willmar. ehildre • had gathered around hint with frau r curiosity, Ile had conte froni til r•, -soda mines up north, and was seekin' , employment as a herder, He. wit slight. of build, not over medias height, and on the back • of his heat he had worn a shapeless,' homesput cap, set 'so that a• twine -colored oto . of hair started out abruptly from be neath its peak. He had worn a short tight -fitting coat, a jerkin,' Autunn had supposed it was, also hoinespu and of a faded peagreen, so incom ' modious hi the sleeves that the res 1 joints, of his wrist stuck painfully 'ou 4. from beneath them.' Under the jbc ,I ket he had worn a checked shirt ani where the jacket gaped aside. Ault senders of a brilliant green drew hi threadbare ti'ousers"'almost up to hi .armpits, leaving his bare shins ex posed, He had worn hobnailed boetu and had 1 d car •]e s d a "itchstick ` b over t his shoulder, at the end, of shish gray bundle had been securely lash ed, The Laird'out of the kindness o his . heart, and probably a winsusioa humor, liad given ]sigh employment a old Absolotsi's helper.. Iris name, She: I had diseovet•ed, was Clancy Shone o 1 but Jarvis Dean hacl ;jocularly, nick named him "'Moony' On` a 'sudden impulse, Autumn bag gone back into- the' house and broilgb n Florian stepped toward her again and grasped her wrist, Autumn was amazed to see that his face had gone suddenly pale. "Don't be a little fool!" he, 'said "You. know when' you've met you •equal --ht nreve —in contempt fo hfe. You are going to marry me Autumn, because we see — eye to eye." He released her and walked away as' Jarvis Dean's footstep was heard rescending the stairway. Autumn turned to greet. her father. "Come along in, Daddy!" she cal- led. '"Florian has just been propos- ing to, me." Jarvis, Dean's face lighted with a smile as'he entered the room., "He'1 be safe' enough, so long as you. don' accept Trim," he said. "r think it was the cocktails that slid it," Autumn laughed. "A good dinner will fix that," said said the Laird, giving Florian his (sand. "How are you, my boy?" "Topping!" Florian 'said, as thea hands crossed. "I hope" you. have' no objection to my prosposing to Au- tumn. I really couldn't help it, you know." "None whatever, sir• It's my op- inion that p-inion'that she has had some experi- ence in the business. She ,ought' •t be „able to look after herself by Phis„ "Rather," Florian' drawled, "She er it," ;he said bluntly. Why?" "Because.. =as a woman you've been in my mind constantly ever since I I saw you again that first night." Bruce leaned forward slightly and ooked directly into her eyes: Her, 'lance fell slowly, and aline of quick :tin appeared between hes. brows.; And that frightens you, Bruce?" Ile rose 'abruptly, strode to the op- en door, and stood looking out. A. titin, misty rain had begun to fall, He ossed his cigarette out into the wet darkness and kept his eyes' upon the spark until it died. He turned where kre stood and looked ether. "Autumn," he said simply, "you have been living in a world'', where nen who were skilled in the art have made love to you. I :mow very little shout that sort of thing. When I tell you that I've thought of„nothing but you since that first night—I mean just that." `•.She"looked at him gravely, "I rode over here to -night- because I •have thought of no one but you," she ,said softly., ."hut" it hasn't frightened me.,, • "I've been thinking of one" other thing, perhaps." "I know, Bruce." "Of course you do. We have talk- ed about that. We willnever know whether it was love that caused that tragedy twenty years ago. Perhaps no one 'mows." "We do know they loved each oth- er, Bruce." - "And we must settle between our- selves, once and for all, what bearing that has on our own, pives. I have settled it for myself." He moved back into • the room and leaned against the table looking clown at her. She returned his gaze for many moments without 'speaking. At last she got up impetuously and be- gan to pace to and fro, her hands sleep in the pockets of her coat. Bruce looked at her, and bis muscles seem- ed to riple all over .his body. Her lithe, tempestuous motion back and forth across the room was like that of some beautiful, caged animal. Presently she turned' on him. "You and I have our own Iives to live," she said vehemently. "It's absurd to think that we should be ruled by something that befell two people whom we can scarcely remember. They lived their lives as they wished—I shall live mule, in my own way." She turned .away from him ab- ruptly and stood in the open doorway. The rain seeped to float across her face delicately spun as a gray veil. She remained: quite still, knowing that Bruce had left his place and was now standing beside her. He lifted one of her hands and kis- sed its soft palm. Then he took hold of her shoulders and turned her a- bout so that she faced ]riot. She let her head fall back and met his eyes solemnly. "Autumn," lie said. "My darling Autunsnl" Autumn slipped forward and was All day this feeling had been strangely with. her, All 'day, too, within her ,consciousness of powerful and elemental things 'moved the awareness of Bruce Landor or rath- er it was _ as though thought of him had lain, bright and constant, in the. depths of her mind and was being revealed now in her own passionate response to the life forces about her. Ho was part of this life as she was, essentially a part. of this spacious harmony. Her heart felt suddenly heavy and sweet with its insupport- able burden of knowledge, the know- ledge of herself and Bruce. She knew no defense against it. The -reticent tenderness :of the evening -the . small murmurings in" the sage, the plain- tive note of a whip -Poor -will in a wooded ravine close by, ,the wild, faint bleat of a stray lamb hurrying back to the flock;" the slow, idyllic boauty of that onward drifting herd in a deep symbol' of man's struggle and hope, a symbol of life itself --all surged in upon her with destruction to her defences. • She pulled a bit of bloom off a sage bush and began to pick it to pieces with her fingers. There had come upon her a revelation that dis- mayed, frightened and exalted hen She stood for a moment looking down into the valley where the shadow: were beginning' to deepen , then, im- petuously flinging away the shrub which she held, she mounted her horse again and rode westward to- ward the Landor reuses. Bruce Landor sat before the rough plank table in the herder's cabin in the ravine. The place was deserted now, the inen having gone to the hills the previous day, The Liinp stood lighted on the table before. hint, He had put the place in order and was ready at last to leave for ,home. He drew together the papers on which he had beer icily speculating, making estimates of his returns from the season's shearing, and noting the in- crease over last year's gains. The season had begun auspiciously. He swung quickly about in his chair as a slight sound came to him from the door. Autumn Dean stood there in her black riding habit, a russet scarf at her throat, the dingy light' casting little facets on her brown leather boots. Her hat was in her hand, and her hair had blown free. Her face was a glowing cameo against the out- er darkness. "uAm I intruding?" she asked, en- tering almost hesitatingly. "One of your risen told me - I should find you here." Bruce got up hurriedly and drew out the other chair. A flush had mounted to his brows, and as he stood for a moment uncertainly be- fore her, he chew his hand diffl- clently back across his hair. •' "You certainly aren't intruding," he said. "I was just toasting time— with figures. But wherever did you come from?" • She seated herself and tossed her hat upon the • table. "Ont in the hills," she said. "We had an early dinner, and I took a Ode out for a look at the sheep, The men left for the range this morning. The evening was so soft and cool ---I just couldn't' go, indoors. ' I came de- liberately to see you after Igot back, You see—V111 a bold woman, Bruce!" "I'ns glad you. are! I've been as lonely as hell to -night. with the men all gone-" "Loneliness is in the air, I guess. The sound of that darn .bell die'' for c." .'Bell?"' "That bell I got from Hector, you know, I gave it to a young irish lad that/father hired last week." "You meats: you sent that Basque bell of Hector's into the hills? You better not tell Hector that.", "Oh, I don't know. I think Hector 'would understand.:' That bell Wasn't meant to hang in a drawing rooks." "But it's such a precious thing -- out out on the range all summer—" "It will come back. It's, charmed. Anyhow—I like the idea," Bruce lit .a cigarette .and Autumn, watching him, thought how well - shaped and brown ' his hands were, "May. I have one?" she asked. "Sorry," he apolegtzeci. "Yon see, in spite of myself, 3 still think of ,you as the little schoolgirl .I used to Isno w." , "Tlse ope ,you fought for?" she aalt- ed as she accepted. a: light. "The same," he replied.. "You'll have to get over that, Bruce," she told him. "I'm very much grown up." 'Perhaps I'm afraid of getting ov- DOINGS IN THE SCOUT WORLD , 120 Toronto churches, support Boy Scout troops: Anglican, 11; United 34; Preslyterian, 20; Roman Gatho- lie,. 3; Baptist, 4; _Jewish, 3. 'Phe island of Grand Manan, N.B., in the Bay of y,has three ac- tive Boy Scout troops—at North Head, White Head and Seal Cove. Scout's Quickness Saves His Father A towel and a oar bati ro plunger h p mi, were succssfully' used by a Prince Edward: Island Scout for a tourniquet and tightener when a spear -like piece of glass severed an artery in his father's. leg. Because of the depth•of the cut and the rapid bleeding, the lad's prompt efficiency was credited by the doctor with saving the Fath- er's life. 250 Trucks For Scout Relief, Work In response to an.appeal of the late Queen of the Belgians for clothing for the needy, the IIoy Scouts of Brussels organised . a "Journee de 1'Entr'Aide." They borrowed 250 lot - ribs, . equipped them with posters and loud` speakers, .and made a'Irouse-to- house collection, with such success that a second depot had to be open- in his arias, and Bruce ,was kissing her in . a glowing dimness whieh seemed to have ' caught them both up from the surrounding shadows. The rain drifted in gently over the stili accidents reported during the year, depth of their kiss. 'It was a rain as -compared with 54,730 during the that left a light, glistening web over prior .year, their hair, their eyes, a young rain' The fatal accidents numbered 287, tirat.spun them into one indistin- as compared with 276 during 1934. gaishable passion.'I'he total benefits awarded during "I love you, Bruce," Her voice was the year amounted to 55,314,112.87, a stumbling whisper. "Terribly—so as compared wtih 84,499,797.23 dur- terribty-" ing 1934, the 1935 figures being Her lips moved softly over his eyes, made up of 54,276,430.01 cotnpensa- over the lute of his brown cheek tion and $1,037,682.86 medical aid. where a hollow came when he smiled.! Taking a basis of 300 working and over his lips and throat. Present-' days, the average daily benefits a- ly Bruce placed his hands strongly, warded amounted to about 817,715 upon her shoulders and studied her. requiring an average of 863 cheques face. 1 per day. .The average number of new "Enough to stand by me against, claims reported daily increased from them all?" he deniandes gravely. "It 182 in 1934 to 195 in 1935. will not be easy, darling—at first" The accidents reported during De - "I'm strong enough for , r anything—i comber numbered 4,832, as compared with you, Bruce," she replied. with 5,162 during November, and 4,- Continued Next Week.) ' 328 during December of 1934. Scouting's Wide Influence In Punjab The tribute to Boy Scouting ' sn . til e Punjab, India, that it was "one of the most important, if not the most rim- portant, influence working � for good � in the province," ,.was paid by the Governor, Sir Herbert' Emerson. Said His Excellency, going into particulars: "There .is na big fair or festival at which the Scout is lint represented in his- hundreds, and sometimes ht his thousands. He helps to contaol the crowds, he acts as guides to pilgrims, he finds logt relatives, he, gives first aid, he en- gages in sanitary work --which a 5 Y o h few years ago the Iridian boy would have scorned. 'He is there to help at times of flood, and when malaria is bad he is a most useful link in the chain of medical relieff., We use him to keep down inaect .pests that threaten the crops,, to, campaign, a- gainst a noxious type of thistle, to help in cleaning up villages, and gen- erally to do his part in making rural life more happy." ACCIDENTS A N D` C,OMPENSA- 1ON UNDER THE WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION ACT • The figures for The Workmen's Compensation Board of Ontario for the year 1935 show a total of 58,546 Grove's does the four things necessary to kill a cold quickly; opens the bowels, combats the cold germs and fever in the system, relieves the headache and "grippy" feeling, tones up the entire system. At all Druggists: Ask for Grove's. They're in a white box. 555 If a"1., n1M°afit ,f t. 1 Somebody to see you! IF EVERYBODY with something to interest . you should come and ring your bell, what a nuisance it`would be! Think of the swarming, jostling crowd, the stamping of feet on your porch and carpets! Every week we know of callers who come to see you. They never jangle the bell—they don't take up your whole day trying to get your attention. Instead they do it in a way that is most considerate of your privacy and your convenience. They advertise in your newspaper! In this way you have only to listen to those you know at a glance have something that interests you. They make it short, too, so you can grittier quickly just what you want to know. You can receive and hear them all without noise or confusion in a very few minutes. In fairness to yourself look over all the adver- tisements. The smallest and the largest—you never can be sure which one will tell something you really want to know. The 011111011 NowsR000rd A FINE MEDIUM ,FOR ADV] R'14fSING---.READ' ADS IN THIS ISSUE. PHONE 4